THIRD PARTIES ALTERNATIVE TO BUSH AND GORE

Looking for a refreshing and challenging change of pace from the
Republicans and Democrats? Check out Harry Browne, the Libertarian
Party's nominee for president.

An investment adviser and author, he ran for president on the same
ticket in 1996, getting just 0.5 percent of the vote. Admitting that
his chances of winning the presidential election were "a very long
shot," he's running a campaign of ideas and hoping to at least double
his vote total.

He sees a public increasingly willing to examine Libertarian ideas and
embrace broad themes of less government intrusion in Americans' lives
and less military adventurism overseas. "It is possible we could elect
a Libertarian president in this decade," he said.

Browne favors ending entirely the federal role in schooling. He asked,
"Is there anyone who believes that, whether Al Gore or George Bush
becomes president, there would be any improvement in public schools?"

On other issues, he said of Libertarians, "We have the strongest
message possible. We're going to repeal the income tax, make sure your
children don't fight or die in foreign wars, and make the streets safe
by ending the war on drugs."

Is a vote for Browne wasted? Should citizens who want smaller
government settle for what some consider the "lesser" of two evils in
the two major parties? Brown believes otherwise. "Quit supporting
people who are supporting larger government," he maintained.

He also said he's bringing people to the polling booths who formerly
weren't interested in politics. "At least every day I get a couple of
people who e-mail me saying, 'I didn't vote, but now I'm going to
register Libertarian.' Whether a Democrat or Republican wins, it's all
going to move in the same direction," of bigger government.

He's especially optimistic about ending the costly war on drugs, which
has given America the world's highest incarceration rate and has
sharply curbed civil liberties through wiretaps, raids on private
homes and seizures of property, to an alarming degree of innocent
people. "From my vantage point of being on talk shows, I can see
clearly how the war on drugs is on its last legs," Browne observed.
"Public support for it is just drifting away."

He's also hopeful that the Internet, a minor factor in 1996, will
boost his campaign this time.

Recent polls show him catching up to another third-party member of the
"right," expected Reform Party nominee Patrick J. Buchanan. Indeed, it
seems as if Libertarian Party press releases spend more time sniping
at the former TV commentator than attacking Texas Gov. George W. Bush
and Vice President Al Gore. However, whereas the Reform Party will get
$12 million in tax money for their campaign, the Libertarians spurn
all money that has been forcibly taken from taxpayers.

We hope Browne is included in this fall's presidential debates.

"If the public can hear my proposals for small government, the
Democrats and Republicans will have to counter them," he said. "And
then the debate will change - from how big government should be to how
small it should be.

"The competitive pressure could even make the other parties reform
themselves."

Like Buchanan, Constitution Party candidate Howard Phillips and Green
Party candidate Ralph Nader, Harry Browne offers a principled
alternative that should be heard.

Visit Libertarian Party candidate Harry Browne's campaign Web site at:
HarryBrowne.org.